Chinese Grand Prix 2024: Practice 1 team radio
66 radio messages were recorded during practice 1 at the Chinese Grand Prix 2024, across 19 drivers. 62 of them have a transcript; the rest are audio only. George RUSSELL had the most, with 9.
These are transcripts of real team radio audio, produced by speech recognition and presented as an archive rather than as edited prose. Radio is clipped and noisy, so wording can be imperfect. Each message is attributed to the driver or their engineer, and the original audio is playable in the archive.
Who was on the radio
- George RUSSELL · Mercedes · 9 messages
- Lando NORRIS · McLaren · 7 messages
- Esteban OCON · Alpine · 5 messages
- Yuki TSUNODA · RB · 5 messages
- Kevin MAGNUSSEN · Haas · 4 messages
- Sergio PEREZ · Red Bull · 4 messages
- Lewis HAMILTON · Mercedes · 4 messages
- Charles LECLERC · Ferrari · 4 messages
- Nico HULKENBERG · Haas · 3 messages
- Carlos SAINZ · Ferrari · 3 messages
- Oscar PIASTRI · McLaren · 3 messages
- Alexander ALBON · Williams · 3 messages
- Fernando ALONSO · Aston Martin · 2 messages
- Pierre GASLY · Alpine · 2 messages
- Daniel RICCIARDO · RB · 2 messages
- Logan SARGEANT · Williams · 2 messages
- ZHOU Guanyu · Kick Sauber · 2 messages
- Valtteri BOTTAS · Kick Sauber · 1 message
- Max VERSTAPPEN · Red Bull · 1 message
Every message, in the order it happened
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: GX3, please. GX3.
Engineer: The positive out that, positive on the brakes.
Engineer: So drivers reporting that track is a very low grip to start so I may need a prep lap
George RUSSELL: It feels quite low-side, probably.
Lando NORRIS: That's
Engineer: all
Lando NORRIS: your books, so I'll stay out.
Engineer: Sorry, Buck, so I say... Follow the Mercedes.
Engineer: Sunoda is pushing four seconds behind now and spark four when you're ready. Spark four.
Sergio PEREZ: The traction in the low speed is not great, especially from 14.
Engineer: So it is very low grip for everyone, it is low grip for everyone.
Engineer: I know Hamilton played out on this tyre. Russell has an issue. We're happy with the heart.
Engineer: In terms of tires, we're happy to increase the pace after turn 13. We can use DRS.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, I'm struggling to stop the car to turn six
Engineer: And the other tailwind corner braking, which is 11, I think. Yeah, that's right, both tailwind corners.
Esteban OCON: Yeah, I'm missing the apex the car doesn't stop too well, so I tried the white but yeah, let me know. Yeah
Engineer: understood
Engineer: And suggest red A7, red A7.
Engineer: The problem in turn nine was definitely wind related, big tailwind out.
Engineer: we're suggesting one more time that with no DRF
Lando NORRIS: yeah it's all over the place to be honest yeah I struggle with everything
Engineer: The grass is on fire at turn 6, inside the turn 7, and that's the red flag.
Esteban OCON: There is a fire in the grass in 27 understood,
Engineer: okay
Engineer: It
Nico HULKENBERG: feels like a big split in the front brake temperatures. Especially into the last corner, the car is rolling left-right a lot. It's very bad.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that. We do see the split when we're at lower temps.
Yuki TSUNODA: Because it is the same fuel load as the before.
Engineer: Correct. And we do some push-cool-push and then we go sustainable when we are happy.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Do you think we need much of a slow outlap? We'll try to keep temperature now.
Engineer: No, we're on the cold side. You can keep up the pace.
Engineer: Rasselnik's car pushing, is 4 seconds behind, approaching fast, letting by, now
George RUSSELL: I should feel a bit more exit of
Engineer: the
George RUSSELL: fence.
Engineer: And we can go strat two now. We'll open another single time lapse.
Engineer: now sergeant turn eight next car behind you now behind him good
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: And ACS button press.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Engineer: seconds press and hold on press and hold five seconds press and hold on the overtake
George RUSSELL: Quite a bit filled with Conservative at the back straight.
George RUSSELL: Quite a bit filled with Conservative at the back straight.
Alexander ALBON: Can we do something for the globility?
Engineer: Yeah, we're checking. Stand by. We'll get back to you.
Nico HULKENBERG: The
Engineer: rain is going on here already. Yeah good practice I guess.
Engineer: Just some feedback, Kev. You're tending to carry more speed through one into two than Nico, and he's gaining about three tenths through two and three and four.
George RUSSELL: Bosman feels pretty conservative.
George RUSSELL: I'm happy to go into some consecutive now, but we will need a set for just whether now is the best time for that or not.
Engineer: Just we'll get it.
Nico HULKENBERG: Break is getting pretty high.
Engineer: If
Nico HULKENBERG: you want the RS, I suggest we do it soon now.
Engineer: Norrish, fastest hard runner, 2.5 tenths at turn 11-12.
Engineer: Lando suggested right hand paddle is better for turn 11 than right hand toggle. Use the paddle.
Engineer: Lando suggests left hand toggle turn 8. Left hand toggle turn 8.
George RUSSELL: Katsu, can you check that instability entry of 6, maybe it's entry or mid?
Engineer: Okay Pierre, so we've got an installation issue with the battery, so we need you to safely get out of the car.
Lewis HAMILTON: Yeah, the car is really bad man.
Engineer: Yeah, copy that Lewis.
Engineer: I recommend trying to get that B-Bell forwards, just to help rear surface.
Logan SARGEANT: That was terrible
Engineer: In terms of wind, we have same direction, slightly higher intensity.
Engineer: I think it's okay like that, Ricky.
Engineer: clear company no just not pushing blood clear company no look like at 20.
Engineer: zero zero target is zero zero zero zero
Engineer: Ciao John, target is 0-0-0-0
Alexander ALBON: I definitely feel like I need more frontal entry, generally. But my biggest limitation is...
Engineer: My
Alexander ALBON: biggest limitation is traction.
Engineer: On Daniel's next lap, let's try to be legal, please. So we have a reference for the next session. We should really try to do that.
Daniel RICCIARDO: Yeah, that's
Engineer: it.
Engineer: So, during this slow lap, try to focus on keeping temperature in the front tyres.
Engineer: Still too much sliding in turn 8. Mode Z. Mode Z test.
Charles LECLERC: I
Engineer: will come back to you on that.
Engineer: So everyone used two sets of tires apart from Mercedes and Alonso.
Audio only, no transcript available for this message.
Kevin MAGNUSSEN: ATMs didn't work.
Engineer: Copy, understood.
Engineer: And you can go back to purple C7 position one, unlimited.
George RUSSELL: Turn six.
Engineer: Clutch was shallow.
ZHOU Guanyu: Anyway, we'll talk later, but yeah, great to be back, of course, let's
Engineer: walk on it. I think it was not a bad start
ZHOU Guanyu: Anyway, we'll talk later, but yeah, great to be back. Oh, of course, let's
Engineer: walk on it. I think was not a bad start
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